More from Oregon: there are no public libraries open in Medford — or the rest of Jackson County and adjacent Josephine County, for that matter.
Both southern Oregon counties closed their libraries — 19 in all — when Congress failed to renew a payment program to rural timber-dependent counties and then later extended the program for only a year.
They’re sharing books over coffee or swapping them on the library steps. One entrepreneur has opened what he’s calling the “interim library.” Even the small Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library in Ashland, with its tidy collection of titles on UFOs and spirituality, is reporting an uptick in traffic.
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